Originally posted by Muse OK, is this a joke? Not having seen one in person, I have to say that it "looks" to me (from online images) that the only lenses you can affix to the camera as long as one of these adapters is attached is a screw mount lens (i.e. one that you attach by turning it several revolutions into the threading). Is this not the case?
It is not a joke and your understanding of the adapter is correct. A few of us do use screwmount lenses as our daily shooting lenses and only on very rare occasions do we remove the adapter so we can use K-mount lenses. In my case, it is only for situations where I absolutely
must have zoom and/or auto-focus. Fortunately, those situations are few and far between.
Takumars really are my daily kit and I even ordered my Lens Baby 2.0 from the factory so I could get it in screwmount (so I could use it on my old screwmount film cameras and also not have to remove the adapter from my K20D to use it).
Some people use screwmounts only every once in a while and find it a pain to have to constantly install and remove the adapter to switch back and forth between screwmount and K-mount. Some of us just shake our heads and wonder why they don't leave the damned K-mounts at home on the shelf. We are the few, and we are oddballs. We recognize and embrace that.
We would be most pleased to have you visit us in
The Takumar Club thread.
Last edited by Mike Cash; 08-20-2010 at 05:10 AM.